Butter-color-containing capsule



Sept. 1, 1925. 1,551,784

, s. o. BARNSTEAD BUTTER COLOR CONTAINING CAPSULE ,Filed April 12 1920 Patented Sept. 1, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I SIDNEY O. BABNSTEAD, 8'1. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOCR TO THE THEROZ COMPANY 0! NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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Application filed April 18, 1920. Serial No. 878,422.

To all whom comm:

Be it known that I, Stormy O. BARN- s'rnan, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Misl souri have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Butter-Color-Containing Capsules, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part 10 thereo This invention relates generally to capsules and, more particularly, to a certain new and useful im rovement in that class of ca les common y known as butter-color 5 contamingcapsules for oleomargarine and the like.

The openingor puncturing of a buttercolor containing ca e as heretofore generally constructed 1s most invariably, so

far as I am aware, accompanied or attended with, a quick fiilshing forth of its contents which, in gus g from the capsule, often s tter andlf permanently soil the clothes of t e housewi e, adjacent objects, and the like.

The principal object of my present invention is to provide a capsule especially ada ted as a container or carrier of butter-co or so constructed as to entirely obviate such occurrence-to provide a butter-color contain- 40 carriers or containers of butter-co or for oleomargarine comprise in their composition gelatine or glue or both, mixed with. varying amounts of glycerine, de rin, acacia, starches, and other diluent the greater the percentage of lycerine, the softer the capsule. In the pro notion of the present capsule, I follow generally the composition and process of manufacture now in common use, and since the same are well 80 known and common in the art, I omit here any further or .detail description thereof. To accomplish the object stated, however, I. construct the capsule in the manufacture thereof with an integral teat which is in communication with the interior or buttercolor containing chamber of the capsule, and which may be conveniently cutby a pair of shears or the like to provide a safe, nongushing discharge-outlet for the contents of the capsule.

In the accom anying drawing, I illustrate several forms 0 butter-color containing capsules embodying my invention,

Figure 1 sin an 'elevational view of a triangular capsu e, and

Figure 2 being an elevational view of a cushion-shaped ca ule.

I refer that t e body of the capsule, whic is imperforated and hollow, be made of a triangular or cushion shape, as shown in the drawings, in which shapes the communicating opening teat for the capsule body is in the form of a projecting re uced corner extension a more or less sharply defined, which'may be evenly sheared as along line 66,, to provide a convenient outlet through which the contents of the capsule will freely flow without gushing.

My invention, which ma be embodied in either a soft or hard caps e, is simple, and yet most efliciently accomplishes the object stated.

.I am aware that changes in the form, construction, and combination of the several parts of the capsule may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a butter-color containing capsule OOIDPI'ISHIiQII- tegrally .an iinperforate hollow angular y and a communicating reduced relat1vely small sharp corner extension projecting outwardly from, and providing an openingteat for, the body.

2. As a' new article of manufacture, a gelatinous butter-color containing capsule 1W comprisin integrally an imperforate holpoints at the edge, any one of which may be low body of angular cushion formation, the removed or severed to give direction to the 10 corners of said body being sharply defined discharge of the liquid content of the deand each providing an opening-teat for the ViCe. body. In testimony whereof, I have signed my 3. An article of the character described, name thlS speclficationpillow-shaped and enclosing a liquid content, and presenting a plurality of angular SIDNEY O. BARNSTEAD. 

